Kaminsky Quotes

#1. If I don't journey forward along these tracks then you will never be born. Then who will there be to tell my story?

Leah Kaminsky

#2. Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

J.B. MacKinnon

#3. It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

Dan Kaminsky

#4. Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

Dan Kaminsky

#5. Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

Ilya Kaminsky

#6. I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.

David McCullough

#7. I'm awful sorry to bother. I can come back. I was wondering if maybe there was any special Program prayer for when you want to hang yourself.

David Foster Wallace

#8. He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

Margaret Mitchell

#9. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

Louis Kronenberger

#10. Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

Dan Kaminsky

#11. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#12. Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Euclid

#13. I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Claes Oldenburg

#14. Sprinkle a mixture of cooked, crumbled bacon, chopped fresh herbs, and bread crumbs on top of baked or grilled ½-inch-thick slices of summer tomatoes or Vidalia onions and bake or grill them until the topping is golden brown.

Peter Kaminsky

#15. The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.

Dan Kaminsky

#16. I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

Dan Kaminsky

#17. The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

Dan Kaminsky

#18. Loving each other began with longing, weaving her loneliness into his.

Leah Kaminsky

#19. The sentence pulsates, moves in and out, toward the character and away from her - when we reach "huddled" we are reminded that an author allowed us to merge with his character, that the author's magniloquent style is the envelope within which this generous contract is carried.

James Wood

#20. Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#21. But in the secret history of anger
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

Ilya Kaminsky

#22. I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

Dan Kaminsky

#23. BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

Dan Kaminsky

#24. A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Jorie Graham